Tipology of cognitive and linguistic mechanisms that define the available lexicon
Abstract
Based on bogotanian student’s lexical availability, a typology of mechanisms explaining the relationship between lexical and conceptual units comprising six thematic areas (body parts, clothing, food and drink, city, professions and jobs, and school and supplies) is presented. The typology raises the existence of some mechanisms, grouped into two major groups: semantic-cognitive and linguistic-formal underlying lexical availability from the study population. Analysis is based on Semantic Networks theory and use the software DispoGrafo to determine the network of lexical and conceptual units that make up each thematic area. The distribution of these mechanisms is presented in the corpus, along with a definition and illustration by graphs of each of the proposed mechanisms.
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